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Lot 518

Printed Color Postcard Fred the Ventriloquist with Georgie Irish Comedy Act Bamforth

Estimate: $50 - $1,000
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Printed color comic postcard depicting Fred the Ventriloquist with his dummy Georgie in a bold illustrated color design, the front featuring comic speech bubble text with Irish themed humor reading You've been poking fun at us Irish all night Mister, making out we're idiots, I'm not talking to you mate, I'm talking to the fool sitting on your knee. The card is identified as Act 2 in a series. Published by Bamforth, a well-known British comic postcard publisher, this card was mailed with a British stamp and bears a handwritten message on the reverse addressed to Mr. John Daley at 19 Rosedens Drive, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham 20, with a personal message referencing a hotel stay and local entertainment. Bamforth ventriloquist comic cards represent an important subcategory of British seaside and novelty postcard production, and this mailed example with full correspondence adds personal provenance to an already characterful piece. The front bears the printed text: Printed color comic illustration reading Fred the Ventriloquist with Georgie, Act 2, with Irish comedy speech bubble text. The reverse reads: Mailed Bamforth POST CARD reverse with British stamp, handwritten message addressed to Mr. John Daley, 19 Rosedens Drive, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham 20. Handwritten inscriptions read: Ink correspondence message with address on reverse.

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